Begur commissions the Housing Agency for the protected housing tender in Esclanyà

The Begur City Council has commissioned the Housing Agency of Catalonia to process the public tender to select the developer of social housing on the municipal plot at 5B Sant Josep Avenue, Esclanyà. The municipal Plenary approved the collaboration agreement in the session of September 1, 2026, and the Official Gazette of the Province of Girona published the announcement on November 13, 2026, under file 2916/2026 and with the official reference BOP-2026_0_219_9708.

The agreement was initially made public in the same gazette on September 14, 2026 (edict 7857, CVE BOP-2026_0_176_7857), opening the period for appeals against an agreement that is immediately executable and exhausts administrative remedies. The publication of this November 13, signed by Mayor Maria Teresa Selva Huertas on November 5, completes the dissemination of the agreement and incorporates the link for full consultation on the municipal transparency portal.

The dissemination is carried out in accordance with article 112.2 of Law 26/2010, of August 3, on the legal regime and procedure of the public administrations of Catalonia, and article 11.3.b) of Law 40/2015, of October 1, on the legal regime of the public sector. The stated objective is to promote the development of social housing and respond to the housing needs of the municipality.

A management commission at no cost to the council

The agreement transfers to the Housing Agency of Catalonia the responsibility of carrying out the tender on the municipal land. According to the published text, the commission involves:

• Processing the public tender through a procedure with publicity and competition.
• Drafting the regulatory specifications of the contest.
• Establishing the conditions and criteria for the selection of the developer.
• Establishing a surface right (ground lease) over the plot in favor of the Agency.
• Formalizing the transfer of this right in favor of the awarded developer.
• Supervising compliance with the established conditions.

The Agency will carry out the commission with its own personal and material resources, without passing any cost on to the Begur City Council. The document does not detail the number of planned homes nor the budget for the action.

Free 75-year surface right

The agreement provides for the free establishment of a surface right in favor of the Agency with a duration of 75 years. The specific conditions of this right will be fixed in the terms of the agreement itself and in the future regulatory specifications of the tender, which is yet to be drafted.

This scheme allows the land to remain in municipal hands while the awarded developer assumes the construction and operation of the protected housing for a long period, under the supervision of the regional body.

Pending plot 5A

The Plenary also committed to processing, in a later phase, a second municipal public tender regarding plot 5A of Sant Josep d’Esclanyà Avenue. This second tender is conditional upon achieving full legal availability of the property.

The mandate includes respect for the principles of publicity, transparency, and competition set out in the same agreement, such that the second development must follow a procedure equivalent to that of plot 5B.

Public consultation of the agreement

The full text of the agreement can be consulted via the link published on the transparency board of the Begur City Council, as stated in the provincial bulletin announcement. The publication in the BOP is what gives general effectiveness to the agreement and allows for citizen control of the operation.

For Esclanyà, this agreement opens the way for the municipal land of Sant Josep to cease being an urban reserve and start producing affordable housing, within a context of residential pressure in the region. Materialization will now depend on the deadlines of the Housing Agency of Catalonia to draft the specifications and call for the tender, and on the legal availability of plot 5A to complete the second phase.

Fuente: Official Bulletin of the Province of Girona, no. 219, November 13, 2026, Local Administration – City Councils, p. 1-1 (official reference: BOP-2026_0_219_9708).